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- Awesome Emacs
- Interface Enhancement
- File Manager
- Navigation
- Visual
- Editing
- Project management
- Programming
- Programming Language
- Keys Cheat Sheet
- Note
- Version control
- Integration
- Markdown
- LaTeX
- Internet
- DevOps
- Package Management
- Library
- Appearance
- Theme
- Multimedia
- Finance
- Fun
- Music
- Starter Kit
- Noteworthy Configurations
- Tutorials
- Links and resources
- Contributing
- Other Awesome Lists
- License
- IDO -
[built-in]Interactively do things with buffers and files.- ido-completing-read+ - Enhance the built-in ido for completion all over Emacs.
- ido-vertical-mode - 9E81 Make ido display vertically.
- Helm - (Formerly ‘Anything’) A powerful completion and selection narrowing framework. ( External Guides 1 )
- Ivy - flexible, simple tools for minibuffer completion in Emacs.
- Ivy, a generic completion mechanism for Emacs.
- Counsel, a collection of Ivy-enhanced versions of common Emacs commands.
- Swiper, an Ivy-enhanced alternative to isearch.
- Icicles - An Emacs library that enhances minibuffer completion.
- smex - A smart M-x enhancement for Emacs.
- tabbar - Display a tab bar in the header line.
- awesome-tab - Out of box extension to use tab in Emacs, build-in projectile support and many awesome features.
- centaur-tabs - Aesthetic, functional tabs plugin with icons and styles, Helm, Ivy and Projectile integration, supported by many popular themes.
- winner -
[built-in]“Undo”(and “redo”) changes in the window configuration with the key commands. - sublimity - smooth-scrolling, minimap inspired by the sublime editor.
- ElScreen - Utility for multiple screens.
- workgroups2 - Session manager, saves all your opened buffers, their location and sizes on disk to restore later.
- ace-popup-menu - Replace GUI popup menu with something more efficient.
- multi-compile - Multi target interface to compile.
- Dashboard - A startup dashboard which provides certain information about your recent Emacs activities.
- EXWM - EXWM turns Emacs into a full-featured tiling X window manager.
- Helm-EXWM - EXWM-specific sources for Helm together with an application launchers and switches.
- Zoom - Fixed and automatic balanced window layout for Emacs.
- Eyebrowse - A simple-minded way of managing window configs in emacs.
- Helpful - An enchancement of the Emacs built-in help system.
Possibly help prevent keyboard related repetitive strain injury (RSI) from occurring.
- Evil - An e xtensible vi l ayer: manipulate Emacs with Vi key binding.
- Evil Collection - A collection of Evil bindings.
- Evil Ediff - Evil bindings for Ediff.
- Evil Magit - Evil bindings for Magit.
- Evil mu4e - Evil bindings for mu4e.
- LispyVille - Evil bindings for lispy-mode.
- Hydra - Make bindings that stick around.
- god-mode - Global minor mode for entering Emacs commands without modifier keys.
- modalka - Introduce native modal editing of your own design.
- xah-fly-keys - A modal keybinding for emacs (like vim), but based on command frequency and ergonomics.
- ergoemacs-mode - Global minor mode to use both common interface keys and ergonomic keys for emacs.
- general - A convient, unified interface for key definitions - like use-package but for key-bindings.
- Dired -
[built-in]Dir ectory Ed itor. A customizable great file manager.- Dired+ - Functional & interface extensions for Dired.
- dired-hacks - Collection of useful Dired additions.
- dired-k - Highlight Dired buffer by file size, modified time, git status.
- NeoTree - A emacs tree plugin like NERD tree for Vim.
- Sr Speedbar - Same frame speedbar.
- projectile-speedbar - Speedbar and Projectile integration.
- Direx - directory tree explorer.
- ztree - Directory tree comparison mode.
- Ranger - ranger like file manager based on Dired.
- Sunrise Commander - Twin-pane file manager for Emacs based on Dired and inspired by Midnight Commander.
- Treemacs - a tree layout file explorer for Emacs.
- Sidebar.el - A customizable file explorer with git integration for emacs.
- tramp-hdfs - Browse HDFS in Emacs with dired using Tramp.
- windmove -
[built-in]Tired withC-x o? Now you can useshift+arrowsto jump between windows. - Ace jump - A quick cursor jump mode.
- Avy - Jump to visible text using a char-based decision tree.
- iy-go-to-char - Go to next CHAR which is similar to “f” and “t” in vim, works well with Multiple Cursors.
- goto-last-change - Move point through buffer-undo-list positions.
- Helm-swoop - Efficiently jump between matched string/lines.
- anzu - displays current match and total matches.
- imenu -
[built-in]Menus for accessing locations in documents. - imenu-anywhere - IDO/Helm imenu tag selection across all buffers with the same mode.
- Minimap - A SublimeText-style minimap sidebar.
- switch-window - A visual replacement for
C-x o. - ace-window - Quickly switch windows.
- ace-link - Quickly follow links in
org-mode,help-mode,Info-mode, and several other modes. - back-button - Visual navigation through mark rings.
- bm - Visual Bookmarks, provides an easy way to navigate in a buffer.
- buffer-move - Move or swap buffer to other window.
- emacs-pophint - Provide navigation like the Vimperator/KeySnail Hint Mode of Firefox.
- vertigo.el - Jump lines using the home row.
- undo-tree - Visualize the whole undo history in buffer as a tree, and you can access anywhere in it.
- highlight-symbol - Auto/manually highlight the same symbols in code, navigate in them, or replace string.
- rainbow-delimiters - Highlights parentheses, brackets, and braces according to their depth.
- rainbow-mode - Colorize color names in buffers.
- visual-regexp - Replace via RegExp, with real-time visual feedback directly in the buffer.
- visual-regexp-steroids - The same as visual-regexp, but use modern regular expressions instead of Emacs-style.
- whitespace -
[built-in]Visualize blanks (tab/space/newline). - linum-relative - display relative line number in the left margin in emacs.
- prettify-symbol-mode -
[built-in]displaying characters as fancy symbols (e.g.lambda->λ). - typo.el - Emacs extension for typographical editing.
- highlight-thing - Light-weight minor mode to highlight thing under point using built-ins.
- focus - Dim the font color of text in surrounding paragraphs.
- beacon - Never lose your cursor again.
- dimmer.el - Interactively highlight which buffer is active by dimming the others.
- volatile-highlights.el - Minor mode for visual feedback on some operations in Emacs.
- color-identifiers-mode - Color Identifiers is a minor mode for Emacs that highlights each source code identifier uniquely based on its name.
- yascroll-el - Yet Another Scroll Bar Mode.
- goto-line-preview - Preview line when executing `goto-line` command.
- highlight-parentheses.el - highlight surrounding parentheses.
- Multiple cursors - Mark, edit multiple lines at once.
- pangu-spacing - Minor-mode to automatically add space between CJK and Latin characters.
- hungry-delete - Delete an entire block of whitespace at point.
- smart-hungry-delete - Delete whitespace between words, parenthesis and other delimiters in a (not very) smart way.
- Drag Stuff - Drag Stuff is a minor mode for Emacs that makes it possible to drag stuff (words, region, lines) around in Emacs.
- expand-region.el - Increase selected region by semantic units.
- multifiles.el - View and edit parts of multiple files in one buffer.
- lentic - Create views of the same content in two Emacs buffers.
- fix-word - Transform words in Emacs (upcase, downcase, capitalize).
- string-inflection - Conversion of text between lowercase, uppercase, camelcase etc.
- zzz-to-char - Fancy replacement for `zap-to-char`.
- ialign - Interactively align lines using a regular expression.
- artist-mode -
[built-in]Draw ASCII lines, squares, rectangles and poly-lines, ellipses, and circles with your mouse and/or keyboard. - crux - A Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs.
- move-text - move current line or region up or down.
- Popup-killring - Browse kill-ring with popup menu.
- Browse-kill-ring - Visually navigate kill-ring.
- easy-kill - Kill & Mark Things Easily in Emacs.
- clipmon - Clipboard monitor for Emacs. Monitors clipboard and pastes contents on change.
- simpleclip - Simplified access to the system clipboard.
- Projectile - Project Interaction Library for Emacs.
- Prodigy - Manage external services from within Emacs.
- Project-Explorer - a tree project explorer (integrates with projectile).
- Find-file-in-project - Quick access to project files in Emacs.
- CEDET -
[built-in]an advanced development environment in Emacs. - C-xrefactory - refactoring tool and code browser for C and Java.
- YASnippets - A template system that allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.
- auto-yasnippet - Advanced copy-paste using Yasnippet.
- tiny - Templates based on linear range transformations.
- evil-nerd-commenter - Comment/uncomment lines efficiently. Like Nerd Commenter in Vim. This program can be used independently without evil-mode.
- mmm-mode - allows Multiple Major Modes to coexist in one buffer (ex: Embedded CSS & JS in HTML file).
- SmartParens - Deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it.
- Aggressive-indent - Keeps your code always indented automatically.
- indent-guide - Show vertical lines to guide indentation.
- Doxymacs - Doxymacs is Doxygen + {X}Emacs.
- whitespace-cleanup-mode - Intelligently call whitespace-cleanup on save.
- ggtags - Emacs frontend to GNU Global source code tagging system.
- lsp-mode - Emacs client for the Language Server Protocol
- lsp-ui - An extension which adds code lenses and documentation pop-up for lsp-mode
- eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers.
- ws-butler - Unobtrusively trim extraneous white-space ONLY in lines edited.
- format-all - Auto-format source code in many languages using the same command.
- Auto-Complete - An intelligent auto-completion extension with great interface.
- Company - A text completion framework.
- company-quickhelp - Documentation popups for company.
- flx - Fuzzy matching for Emacs like Sublime Text.
- abbrev -
[built-in]Abbreviation expander. - emacs-ycmd - Emacs client for YCM.
- realgud - A modular front-end for interacting with external debuggers.
- dap-mode - An implementation of the debug adapter protocol used in VSCode and other editors.
- Helm-dash - Browse Dash docsets via Helm interface.
- eldoc -
[built-in]shows function arguments / variable doc in minibuffer when coding.
- vimish-fold - Vim-like text folding.
- hideshow -
[built-in]Folding regions by balanced-expression code.- hideshowvis - Based on
hideshow, just display its nodes on fringe.
- hideshowvis - Based on
- Origami.el - Feature rich text folding minor mode.
- FlyMake -
[built-in]on-the-fly syntax checks on files using external tools. - Flycheck - Modern on-the-fly syntax checking meant to be a replacement to
FlyMake.
- GNU Global - advanced source code tagging system with jump to definition functionality.
- Dumb Jump - easy jump to definition package for multiple languages using
agorgrep.
- CC Mode -
[built-in]An Emacs and XEmacs mode for editing C and other languages with similar syntax. - rtags - A C/C++ client/server indexer with for integration with emacs based on clang.
- emacs-cquery - Emacs client of cquery, a C/C++/Objective-C language server powered by clang.
- irony-mode - A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang.
- cmake-font-lock - Enhanced font-lock rules for CMake.
- function-args - visual CEDET enhancements for C++.
- Ebrowse -
[built-in]A C++ class browser. - cmake-ide - Configures other packages to consider compile options like include paths from cmake projects to improve e.g. autocompletion.
- Elpy - An Emacs Python development environment.
- anaconda-mode - Code navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Python.
- virtualenvwrapper.el - Manage virtualenv from inside Emacs.
- pipenv.el - Integrates pipenv to emacs providing useful commands.
- renpy-mode - Emacs major mode for working with the Ren’Py visual novel engine.
- rvm - Ruby versions manager within Emacs.
- bundler - Interact with gem Bundler from Emacs.
- inf-ruby - REPL buffer connected to a Ruby subprocess.
- enhanced-ruby-mode - Enhanced Ruby Mode replaces the emacs ruby mode that comes with ruby. It uses the Ripper class found in ruby 1.9.2 (and later) to parse and indent the source code.
- yari - Yet Another RI interface for Emacs.
- robe - Code navigation, documentation lookup and completion for Ruby.
- rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
- motion-mode - A package to provide emacs’ major mode for RubyMotion enviroment.
- rspec-mode - An RSpec minor mode for Emacs.
- feature-mode - Emacs mode for editing Cucumber plain text stories.
- rinari - Rinari Is Not A Rails IDE (it is an Emacs minor mode for Rails).
